From: Chris Harvey (chris@languagegeek.com)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 08:26:56 CDT
Ysgrifennodd Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> ar y 08-09-2005 am 16:58:
> But later, when keyboards were extended, wasn't there a backquote (`)
> usable as a grave accent over e (è) , which was probably better than
> using the complex digraph of underlined vowels?
The grave accent is used to mark stress. By using the underline accent and
doubled (long) vowels, there is no graphic interference with the stress
diacritic.
Chris
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